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Show lUUGM 10 SPACER BIKE W WINERS New Record Is Claimed ; Scandal Develops, Causing Caus-ing Much Bitterness. By International News Service. SAN FRANCISCO, March 10. Magrin and Spencer won the six-clay bicycle race here tonight wlih 41 points. Lawrenue and Thomas were second with 61 points. The winners covered 2S07 miles and two laps in 144 hours. Cameron and Kaiser were third with 70 points; Mitten and Smith fourth, 95 points; Pierev and Kopskv fifth. 97 pointy; Ohrt and Ohrt, sixth, 120 points; Carrnll and "Weber, seventh, 141 points. The winners' time is said to be 200 miles better than the six-day race at Chicago, February 17, which was won by Dupuy and Kytf. Charges and counter-charges, assertions, asser-tions, denials and declarations of intention inten-tion were issued in quick succession today to-day by the parties interested and implicated impli-cated in the alleged bicycle race scandal. The four cyclers, ReKS'e McNamara, Fred Hill, Eddie Root and Gene Corey, who withdrew from the grind last night following a ruling by John Chapman, representative rep-resentative of the National Cycling association, asso-ciation, which they declared was unjust and in direct violation of the rules, repeated re-peated their allegations that the race was framed from the start against them; that Chapman was seeking to kill the game in San Francisco so that his own Now- ark interests would be furthered; that the scores were padded; that constant favoritism was being shown Ma gin and Spencer and that the riders were loafing and stalling in the early morning hours. Manager Hill Pickens' stood pat on his statement that the four riders were merely singing the song of the beaten ! man who quits under fire, and that there was not an iota of truth in their absurd squawkings. Chapman re -asserted that all his rulings rul-ings have been fair and just. |